1. Uncanny X-Men, in 1985
2. Shade, the Changing Man (in 1994)
3. Legion of Super-Heroes, at least three times since 1975
4. Loveless (most recently)
5. Actually, there hasn't been a point in my life in which I stopped, or even intended to stop, reading comics. There was a time back in 2000 when I lost my job that I cut back my holds list to 10 titles, but fortunately I got another job the next month so I didn't miss too many.

*****

Dave Knott

1. Legion of Superheroes - actually, make that all DC superhero comics not related to cartoons
2. Any and all X-Men comics
3. Various spin-off series from Sandman
4. Usagi Yojimbo - although I fully intend to start reading it again
5. Approximately ages 13-18 - I read some comics (mostly Tintin and Asterix) as a kid, but didn't get back into it until meeting one of my best friends in second year university.

1. Spider-Man (~18 months ago: it became intolerably bad, even compared to the end of Howard Mackie's tenure, or the depths of the Clone Saga...although I should have dropped it then, as well)
2. 2000AD (~15 years ago: I read it for about five years straight, but drifted away after Zenith finished and Judge Dredd returned from his Long Walk. I guess it wasn't quite Thrilling me as much as it used to)
3. The Losers (after #7: I loved the series, but a cashflow crisis forced me to switch to the paperback collections)
4. Local (after #2: again, I liked the series, and I'm sure I asked for it to be placed on my standing order, but my shop has a mild blind spot where certain indy titles are concerned. I intend to either pick up the back issues as and when I can get to a bigger shop, or (more probably) snap up any future collection)
5. I've never really any time away from comics. The closest I came to such a thing was in the early nineties, just before Marvel UK started reprinting the McFarlane-era Spider-Man comics. I think I was down to the occasional mature-readers magazine (Deadline, Strip) and sundry newsagent-sourced US comics. Blimey!

*****

Elijah Brubaker

this was tough, most of the comics I've stopped reading are comics I don't ever want to remember.

1- Uncle Scrooge... I read them when I was very young but haven't picked 'em up since... I know I should, I just haven't
2- Akira... I bought the issues Epic was putting out a while back. The format was too slim, it seemed like nothing was ever going to happen.
3- X-men... several times. Chris Claremonts a genius for being able to make a living from the same four storylines over and over again.
4- Kramer's ergot... number four was filled with blank pages and notebook doodles that I didn't dig. There was a lot of good stuff too but I passed on the next issue.
5- from around age 15-19 I became far more interested in other forms of literature and entertainment as well as partying and girls

1. The Amazing Spider-Man--somewhere after issue 200. Had been pretty faithful up till then.
2. Uncanny X-Men--I cancelled my subscription somewhere in the Romita Jr. run and switched it to Dr. Strange.
3. Duplex Planet
4. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad
5. About a month in my freshman year of college. I was in college--no time for childish hobbies. Then I discovered Love and Rockets...curse you Hernandez Bros.!

1) Cages
2) Strangers in Paradise
3) Cerebus
4) Reinventing Comics
5) Age 30 - I went through a sort of mini personal crisis and convinced myself that I was too old for comics. That only lasted about 3 months.

*****

Sean T. Collins

1. The Savage Dragon (around the time he started running for President)
2. Achewood (about two years ago, for no reason other than I guess I have a hard time following daily strips)
3. Spawn (when it went bi-weekly and he started fighting a cybernetically enhanced gorilla, and I realized McFarlane was doing everything he complained about Marvel doing)
4. New X-Men (after Morrison left)
5. College, approx. 1996-1999 (I'd still read the occasional book--Watchmen, whatever Frank Miller was up to--but I didn't start reading comics with anything resembling regularity until the second semester of my senior year (spring 2000), when a roommate introduced me to Acme Novelty Library and The Savage Dragon)

*****

Charles Hatfield

1. Post-Crisis DCs: (pick any) Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman
2. Swamp Thing, post-Veitch
3. The Badger
4. Grimjack
5. Age 12 (late 1977, Kamandi #55) to age 19 (late mid-1984, TMNT #1 of all things): With the exception of another issue of Kamandi (#59), I don't think I bought any new comic books for more than seven years, and I only bought the TMNT as a gag gift for my brother. I resumed "regular" comic-buying in the summer of 1985.